Word: lolitas
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...Picasso family. "Come at 11." Telephoning for an appointment at the Barcelona apartment, Editor Bernier got a surprising answer: "Come at 11 tonight." Once inside, she found herself plunged into the world of a gypsy encampment. "The lights burn out all the time here," Picasso's niece Lolita explained. Added Nephew Juanin: "And the fuses always blow up." In the semidarkness, Rosamond Bernier saw a room cluttered with ancient furniture, presided over by Picasso's smiling sister, Doña Lola, wrapped in a sheet held together with safety pins, and flanked by two more Picasso nephews, both...
...life I give for the freedom of my country," said the note carried in the pocketbook of ember-eyed Lolita Lebroón the bloody day last March when she and three henchmen of Puerto Rico's fanatic Nationalist Party sprayed the chamber of U.S. House of Representatives with pistol bullets, wounding five Congressmen.* Last week Terrorist Lebroón got a much lighter sentence than she apparently expected. Washington's Federal Judge Alexander Holtzoff gave her the maximum for assault with a dangerous weapon: 50 years in prison, with eligibility for parole in 16 years, eight months...
Sentenced to 75 years, with parole eligibility in 25 years, were Lolita's henchmen: Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25, Andres Figueroa Cordero, 29, and Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28. They had also been convicted of a graver offense: assault with intent to kill...
Before the sentencing, Lolita Lebroón was allowed to address the court. Said she: "I love you and I love the world and I love God ... I ask God to forgive you and I forgive you, too." Judge Holtzoff was less willing to forgive. The four conspirators, he snapped, had shown no remorse for their "crime, so heinous, so infamous, so daring and atrocious...
...Lolita's "wise master," crackpot Nationalist Chief Albizu Campos, called the attack on Congress "an act of sublime heroism." The Harvard-educated Albizu, who inspired the 1950 plots against Harry Truman and Munoz, had been released from prison last September because of his increasing mental deterioration. (His followers do not seem to notice that he is mad.) When police set out to arrest him at his apartment in downtown San Juan last week, they were greeted by a blast of bullets and homemade Molotov cocktails that splattered on the cobblestone street. The police drew back, began a two-hour...